Dr. Donald Leonhard-MacDonald

We have extensive experience in research commercialization as well as in technology and entrepreneurship education. We advise & train entrepreneurs and investors on high-tech venture creation and trending technologies. We also offer coding courses to allow entrepreneurs and makers to build their own projects.

We make innovative software merging real-time data with the latest machine learning and natural language processing techniques. We also teach non-IT founders how take their first steps towards building and managing the IT component of their startup. Our special expertise lies in research commercialisation for STEM researchers.

Develop high performance computer programs for BioInformatics applications mostly focused on using Storm, Hadoop, MPI and Zookeeper with the Open Microscopy Environment.

Develop content management software to store and analyse fluorescence and brightfield Microscopy images. see http://www.openmicroscopy.org.uk Develop system for automated drug screening (both first and second level screens). Published several peer reviewed papers in Nature Methods, Journal Cell Biology and Methods in Cell Biology.

Lecturer in Computer Science developing and running a number of courses on Programming, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics and Databases. Published over 40 peer reviewed papers. Supervising PhD students.

Specialising in Machine Learning on Remote Sensing. I specialised in developing methods for the visualisation of high dimensional data.